2 Raja-raja 6
1 Pada suatu hari berkatalah rombongan nabi kepada Elisa: "Cobalah lihat, tempat tinggal kami di dekatmu ini adalah terlalu sesak bagi kami.
The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us.
2 Baiklah kami pergi ke sungai Yordan dan masing-masing mengambil satu balok dari sana, supaya kami membuat tempat tinggal untuk kami." Jawab Elisa: "Pergilah!"
Please let us go to the Jordan, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell." He answered, "Go."
3 Lalu berkatalah seorang: "Silakan, ikutlah dengan hamba-hambamu ini." Jawabnya: "Baik aku akan ikut."
One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."
4 Maka ikutlah ia dengan mereka. Setelah mereka sampai di sungai Yordan, merekapun menebang pohon-pohon.
So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 Dan terjadilah, ketika seorang sedang menumbangkan sebatang pohon, jatuhlah mata kapaknya ke dalam air. Lalu berteriak-teriaklah ia: "Wahai tuanku! Itu barang pinjaman!"
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master. For it was borrowed."
6 Tetapi berkatalah abdi Allah: "Ke mana jatuhnya?" Lalu orang itu menunjukkan tempat itu kepadanya. Kemudian Elisa memotong sepotong kayu, lalu dilemparkannya ke sana, maka timbullah mata kapak itu dibuatnya.
The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
7 Lalu katanya: "Ambillah." Orang itu mengulurkan tangannya dan mengambilnya.
He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it.
8 Raja negeri Aram sedang berperang melawan Israel. Ia berunding dengan pegawai-pegawainya, lalu katanya: "Ke tempat ini dan itu haruslah kamu turun menghadang."
Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place."
9 Tetapi abdi Allah menyuruh orang kepada raja Israel mengatakan: "Awas, jangan lewat dari tempat itu, sebab orang Aram sudah turun menghadang ke sana."
The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you not pass such a place; for the Arameans are coming down there."
10 Sebab itu raja Israel menyuruh orang-orang ke tempat yang disebutkan abdi Allah kepadanya. Demikianlah Elisa memperingatkan kepadanya, supaya berawas-awas di sana, bukan sekali dua kali saja.
The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
11 Lalu mengamuklah hati raja Aram tentang hal itu, maka dipanggilnyalah pegawai-pegawainya, katanya kepada mereka: "Tidakkah dapat kamu memberitahukan kepadaku siapa dari kita memihak kepada raja Israel?"
The heart of the king of Aram was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, "Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?"
12 Tetapi berkatalah salah seorang pegawainya: "Tidak tuanku raja, melainkan Elisa, nabi yang di Israel, dialah yang memberitahukan kepada raja Israel tentang perkataan yang diucapkan oleh tuanku di kamar tidurmu."
One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."
13 Berkatalah raja: "Pergilah melihat, di mana dia, supaya aku menyuruh orang menangkap dia." Lalu diberitahukanlah kepadanya: "Dia ada di Dotan."
He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." It was told him, saying, "Look, he is in Dothan."
14 Maka dikirimnyalah ke sana kuda serta kereta dan tentara yang besar. Sampailah mereka pada waktu malam, lalu mengepung kota itu.
Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.
15 Ketika pelayan abdi Allah bangun pagi-pagi dan pergi ke luar, maka tampaklah suatu tentara dengan kuda dan kereta ada di sekeliling kota itu. Lalu berkatalah bujangnya itu kepadanya: "Celaka tuanku! Apakah yang akan kita perbuat?"
When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, look, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master. What shall we do?"
16 Jawabnya: "Jangan takut, sebab lebih banyak yang menyertai kita dari pada yang menyertai mereka."
He answered, "Do not be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
17 Lalu berdoalah Elisa: "Ya TUHAN: Bukalah kiranya matanya, supaya ia melihat." Maka TUHAN membuka mata bujang itu, sehingga ia melihat. Tampaklah gunung itu penuh dengan kuda dan kereta berapi sekeliling Elisa.
Then Elisha prayed and said, "LORD, please open his eyes, that he may see." The LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and look, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
18 Ketika orang-orang Aram itu turun mendatangi dia, berdoalah Elisa kepada TUHAN: "Butakanlah kiranya mata orang-orang ini." Maka dibutakan-Nyalah mata mereka, sesuai dengan doa Elisa.
When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
19 Kemudian berkatalah Elisa kepada mereka: "Bukan ini jalannya dan bukan ini kotanya. Ikutlah aku, maka aku akan mengantarkan kamu kepada orang yang kamu cari." Lalu diantarkannya mereka ke Samaria.
Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." He led them to Samaria.
20 Segera sesudah mereka sampai ke Samaria berkatalah Elisa: "Ya TUHAN, bukalah mata orang-orang ini, supaya mereka melihat." Lalu TUHAN membuka mata mereka, sehingga mereka melihat, dan heran, mereka ada di tengah-tengah Samaria.
It happened, when they had come into Samaria, that Elisha said, "LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." The LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and look, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 Lalu bertanyalah raja Israel kepada Elisa, tatkala melihat mereka: "Kubunuhkah mereka, bapak?"
The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"
22 Tetapi jawabnya: "Jangan! Biasakah kaubunuh yang kautawan dengan pedangmu dan dengan panahmu? Tetapi hidangkanlah makanan dan minuman di depan mereka, supaya mereka makan dan minum, lalu pulang kepada tuan mereka."
He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master."
23 Disediakannyalah bagi mereka jamuan yang besar, maka makan dan minumlah mereka. Sesudah itu dibiarkannyalah mereka pulang kepada tuan mereka. Sejak itu tidak ada lagi gerombolan-gerombolan Aram memasuki negeri Israel.
He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Aram stopped raiding the land of Israel.
24 Sesudah itu Benhadad, raja Aram, menghimpunkan seluruh tentaranya, lalu maju mengepung Samaria.
It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Aram gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
25 Maka terjadilah kelaparan hebat di Samaria selama mereka mengepungnya, sehingga sebuah kepala keledai berharga delapan puluh syikal perak dan seperempat kab tahi merpati berharga lima syikal perak.
There was a great famine in Samaria. Look, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
26 Suatu kali ketika raja Israel berjalan di atas tembok, datanglah seorang perempuan mengadukan halnya kepada raja, sambil berseru: "Tolonglah, ya tuanku raja!"
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king."
27 Jawabnya: "Jika TUHAN tidak menolong engkau, dengan apakah aku dapat menolong engkau? Dengan hasil pengirikankah atau hasil pemerasan anggur?"
He said, "If the LORD doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"
28 Kemudian bertanyalah raja kepadanya: "Ada apa?" Jawab perempuan itu: "Perempuan ini berkata kepadaku: Berilah anakmu laki-laki, supaya kita makan dia pada hari ini, dan besok akan kita makan anakku laki-laki.
The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
29 Jadi kami memasak anakku dan memakan dia. Tetapi ketika aku berkata kepadanya pada hari berikutnya: Berilah anakmu, supaya kita makan dia, maka perempuan ini menyembunyikan anaknya."
So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."
30 Tatkala raja mendengar perkataan perempuan itu, dikoyakkannyalah pakaiannya; dan sedang ia berjalan di atas tembok, kelihatanlah kepada orang banyak, bahwa ia memakai kain kabung pada kulit tubuhnya.
It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked and saw that he had sackcloth against his skin.
31 Lalu berkatalah raja: "Beginilah kiranya Allah menghukum aku, bahkan lebih dari pada itu, jika masih tinggal kepala Elisa bin Safat di atas tubuhnya pada hari ini."
Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day."
32 Adapun Elisa, duduk-duduk di rumahnya, dan para tua-tua duduk bersama-sama dia. Raja menyuruh seorang berjalan mendahuluinya, tetapi sebelum suruhan itu sampai kepada Elisa, Elisa sudah berkata kepada para tua-tua itu: "Tahukah kamu, bahwa si pembunuh itu menyuruh orang untuk memenggal kepalaku? Awas-awaslah, apabila suruhan itu datang, segeralah tutup pintu dan tahanlah dia supaya orang itu jangan masuk. Bukankah sudah kedengaran bunyi langkah tuannya di belakangnya?"
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
33 Selagi ia berbicara dengan mereka, datanglah raja mendapatkan dia. Berkatalah raja kepadanya: "Sesungguhnya, malapetaka ini adalah dari pada TUHAN. Mengapakah aku berharap kepada TUHAN lagi?"
While he was still talking with them, look, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, "Look, this disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"
